History Main / EqualOpportunityEvil

* In the ''{{Trigun}}'' manga, the Gung-Ho Guns were very equal-opportunity in employing all manner of disabilities and lifestyles (a paraplegic, a quadreplegic, a gang of midgets, a child, a one-eyed woman, a transvestite, a samurai, a man with split personality, their own musician...) As long as they were sufficiently villainous and ruthless, their employer didn't care.

* Similarly to Aizen, OnePiece gives us Sir Crocodile, who has hired a black man, a flamboyant transvesite, old people, and every male member of his team has completely equal female partner, including himself. Sure he may be evil, but at least he isn't prejudiced! Well, the transvestite doesn't have a partner. He considered himself his own partner in that regard.

-->'''Lamarr:''' I want rustlers, cut throats, murderers, bounty hunters, desperados, mugs, pugs, thugs, nitwits, halfwits, dimwits, vipers, snipers, con men, Indian agents, Mexican bandits, muggers, buggerers, bushwhackers, hornswogglers, horse thieves, bull dykes, train robbers, bank robbers, ass-kickers, shit-kickers and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking Methodists]].

*** All the events actually happened: the naval battle, the traitor, the senate council thing refusing to go toi war that day: it's just [[RefugeInCool very stylized]], and in execution is inaccurate.

* ''Snow Crash''. In a future world with no laws, the mafia is ruled by Uncle Enzo. If you're willing to sign up, obey the rules and think on your feet (all concepts stressed in the book by Enzo) it doesn't matter what race you are. In face. the Mafia even has billboards showing Enzo protecting/recruiting perfectly ethnically diverse folks. In contrast, the heroic protaganist of the book, Hiro Protagonist (no, really), is nearly murdered in the middle of a shopping center simply because he is half-black, half-asian.

* In [[http://www.drunkduck.com/Cwens_Quest/index.php?p=494901 this]] page of [[CwensQuest Cwen's Quest]] the villains make it clear they do judge anyone in a speach to rally the team members to slaughter a village down the last child.

* The Habsburg (often called "Austrian") Empire was a LOT like this, as it encompassed (at various points in time) parts of Italy, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland, Croatia, Slovenia, Serbia, Albania, Bosnia, and Southern Germany. This was TakenUpToEleven by its last incarnation, the Austro-Hungarian Empire, whose number of official languages was in the double digets and whose ethnic composition has to be seen to be believed.
** [[WorldWarII Didn't really work out]] [[DeConstruction fro them.]]

* The League of Shadows from ''BatmanBegins'' had Europeans, Asians, and at least one African among its ranks in the few scenes we see them [[FacelessGoons with their masks off]]. (A review of the video game based on the film pointed out how jarring it seemed that the enemies the player faces in the game are very racially mixed.) ''TheDarkKnight'' shows that the various ethnic gangs in Gotham (Blacks, Italians, Chechens, Chinese, etc) are so scared of the Batman that they started working together against him.

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* In [[http://www.drunkduck.com/Cwens_Quest/index.php?p=494901 this]] page of [[CwensQuest Cwen's Quest]] the villains make it clear they do judge anyone in a speach to rally the team members to slaughter a village down the last child.
* The Slavers in ''{{Lightbringer}}'' seem to be predominantly Caucasian, but Lightbringer notes that its members come from all sorts of different races. This probably has to do with how they began as a group of unrelated gangs.

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* Although the * USA of ''DecadesOfDarkness'' are an ever-expanding, slaveholding empire that makes peons of most Mexicans and other Latin Americans, some Hispanics from rich families manage to rise to the top -- Alvar O'Brien (Alvarez Obregon) even becomes president as early as 1932.
** Only ''white'' Hispanics can achieve equal-to-white status, however.
* The EvilOverlordList specifically recommends recruiting people of all races into your Legions of Doom, and also spreading oppression and terror equally amongst all your subjects, and not singling out a specific group who will form the core of a rebellion.
* Dragonstorm, the enemy organization of SF [[FurryFandom furry]] role play ''[=~Darwin's Soldiers~=]'', has shown in its ranks examples of almost every species yet introduced. Of course, so does every other faction; cross-species racism is almost never touched upon.

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* ''WorldOfWarcraft'' has the Venture Co. run mostly by Goblins but employing diverse races from both the Alliance ''and'' the Horde! Humans, Gnolls, [[TheUndead Forsaken]], Dwarves, and Gnomes, all working together in the great Venture for Profit!
** Gnolls aren't even from the Horde or the Alliance; they're opposed to ''both''.
** The Twilight's Hammer cult seems to be a similarly diverse group; they include humans, gnomes, high elves, trolls, dwarves, orcs, forsaken, and even ''tauren''.

*** To be fair, this happens with good (or at least neutral) organisations too: The Argent Dawn, Shattered Sun Offensive, Cenarion Circle, Blackwater Raiders and Argent Crusade being notable examples.
**** Also, any playable character race can be a Death Knight, so don't forget the Knights of the Ebon Blade!
***** And of course there are evil organizations that play against this type, like the Scarlet Crusade and the Grimtotem clan, who are explicitly xenophobic.
*** The Burning Legion will accept virtually anybody their ranks, as long as they have no moral qualms about omnicide. They will also [[YouHaveFailedMe kill entire races of their servants it they screw up]].

* Somewhat lampshaded during Marvel's ActsOfVengeance event, in which the mastermind assembles an evil team supreme consisting of Doctor Doom (Romani), Magneto (Jewish), the Mandarin (Chinese), the Kingpin, the Wizard, and the Red Skull (a Nazi). It ''really'' didn't work out. Entirely apart from the clash of egos, none of them could stand the Skull, and vice-versa.

* In ''{{Naruto}}'' Orochimaru's [[QuirkyMinibossSquad Sound Four]] are a fat guy, [[AmbiguousBrown A brown six armed person]], a woman who curses like a sailor, two persons not completely unlike Siamese Twins, and the leader is a terminally ill guy.

*** There's a lot those responsible for casting didn't know or just didn't care, and the whole thing's based on Frank Miller's comic, so the blame ultimately goes to him. It's easier to count the things 300 gets ''right'' historically than to list things that are wrong. There ''was'' a conflict in Thermopylae between Greece and Persia in 480 BCE! (And that's about it.)
*** All the events actually happened: the naval battle, the traitor, the senate council thing refusing to go toi war that day: it's just vey stylized, and in execuetion is inaccurate.

* While [[BackToTheFuture his ancestors]] followed a white guys only rule, [[BackToTheFuturePartII Griff Tannen]]'s [[HollywoodCyborg cybernetically-enhanced]] [[FiveManBand teenage gang]] includes at least one [[TokenMinority Asian]] and [[TheDarkChick a woman]].

* Spoofed in MelBrooks' ''BlazingSaddles'': The villain's "[[{{Mooks}} Thugs]] Wanted" ads specify that he's "An Equal Opportunity Employer".\

* The enemy gangs in ''{{The Warriors}}'' are generally racially segregated except for the Turnbull AC's who, oddly enough, are a gang of skinheads.

* Surprisingly, even ThoseWackyNazis could muster this... once in a while when it was convenient for them. While they were blatantly racist and bigoted, their greatest ally was the decidedly non-White Japanese Empire and they organized military units of (amongst others) Russians, Ukranians, Frenchmen, Arabs, Bosniaks, Serbs, Indians, Africans, Scandinavians, Spaniards, and Portuguese, and offered military support to virtually anybody they could reach willing to fight against their enemies, including Chechens, Iranians, Iraqis, Croats, Syrians, Russians, Vichy France, and [[NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer Jews (Google the Stern Gang).]]

* The Habsburg (often called "Austrian") Empire was a LOT like this, as it encompassed (at various points in time) parts of Italy, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland, Croatia, Slovenia, Serbia, Albania, Bosnia, and Southern Germany. This was TakenUpToEleven by its last incarnation, the Austro-Hungarian Empire, whose number of official languages was in the double digets and whose ethnic composition has to be seen to be believed. [[VestigalEmpire Suffice it to say, it was not very stable.]]

**** Also, any playable character race can be a Death Knight, so don't forget the Knights of the Ebon Blade!

* ''DeathWish 3'', which Ebert speaks of in the page quote, is an {{egregious}} example, portraying all the street gangs of New York as multiethnic. That's hardly the film's only problem, however...

* While YourMileageMayVary on how "evil" the Peacekeepers in {{Farscape}} are as a whole, they are nothing if not diverse: wide variety of skin tones, plenty of female officers, and all the battle units shown are mixed-gender.

* In the Bruce Lee film "Way of the Dragon"(aka "Return of the Dragon"), Bruce goes to Rome to help a Chinese restaurant threatened with extortion by the local gansters. The crime boss has an effete, Chinese lackey and thugs that are both white and black("I'd like some Chinese spare ribs!") who scare away the customers and beat up the staff. After Bruce deals with these guys, the crime boss flies in an American (Chuck Norris) to kill Bruce.

* Dragonstorm, the enemy organization of sci-fi furry role play ''DarwinsSoldiers'', has shown in its ranks examples of almost every species yet introduced. Of course, so does every other faction; cross-species racism is almost never touched upon.

* Communist regimes fit this trope. They have committed many human rights violations, including outright genocide, but they were not racist, and communist rulers have come from many different backgrounds.
** Not quite. Every heard about [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1968_Polish_political_crisis 1968 Polish political crisis]]? Basicly to get rid of opposite faction in party they started {WitchHunt} on... Jews. (It should be noted that the people who were forced to emigrate were helped by at least protesters).
*** Seconded. Communist governments could be quite racist (as shown by the anti-German exoduses after WWII and the ruthless anti-minority programs carried out by some like Mao and Ceausescu, in addition to the sometimes blinding racism of Stalin against groups percieved to be outsiders), but they still fit (for instance, the Soviet Red Army alone from the Revolution until WWII included Russians, Ukranians, Latvians, Georgians, Ossetians, Abkhazians, Azeris, Armenians, Mongolians, Chinese, Estonians, Lithuanians, Finns, and several others).

** The Habsburg (often called "Austrian") Empire was a LOT like this, as it encompassed (at various points in time) parts of Italy, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland, Croatia, Slovenia, Serbia, Albania, Bosnia, and Southern Germany. This was TakenUpToEleven by its last incarnation, the Austro-Hungarian Empire, whose number of official languages was in the double digets and whose ethnic composition has to be seen to be believed. [[VestigalEmpire Suffice it to say, it was not very stable.]]
* Brazilian Integralism, an openly fascist movement which emerged in Brazil in the 1930s, yet did not preach racism (despite an anti-Semitic faction) and even made use of the slogan "Union of all races and all peoples".
** That's because Brazil is amongst the most mixed melting pot nations in the world, if not THE most mixed one. [[FridgeLogic Hard to build a movement on racism when most of the country's populace is mixed]].

* [[{{Complete MonsterMad King Ashnard]] was notable for this in [[{{Fire Emblem}} Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance.]] It was said he would hire any powerful men without checking their backgrounds or motives.